Origins: How an American magazine helped launch one of Britain’s favourite Christmas carols
MAURA IVES, a scholar of British poet Christina Rossetti, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at how ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ became one of the most popular Christmas carols…
Christmas classic ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ has a renewed life as part of Church of England campaign
UK Almost 150 years after Christina Rossetii wrote In the Bleak Midwinter, it has become a music sensation, heading up the UK iTunes Classical Charts. This well-loved carol forms the centrepiece of the Church of England’s Advent and Christmas campaign #AtTheHeartOfChristmas encouraging people to hear the Christmas story through their local church. The soundtrack is a […]